Current estimated cost of the project to build two new reactors at the Southern Co./Georgia Power Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga.: $14 billion

Year in which the Georgia legislature passed a law allowing Georgia Power to begin charging customers for the Vogtle reactors even before they were licensed: 2009

Date on which the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that Westinghouse failed to demonstrate that the building designed to shield its AP1000 reactor — the design slated for Vogtle and Summer — was safe: 10/15/2009

Original cost estimate for the two reactors at the South Texas Project, which involves NRG Energy, CPS Energy, and Toshiba: $5.4 billion

Amount ratepayers paid in today’s dollars in cost overruns for the plants that were built: over $200 billion

Year in which Forbes called the previous round of nuclear plant construction “the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale:” 1985

Estimated additional amount it would cost to generate electricity today from 100 new nuclear reactors instead of generating the same amount of power from a combination of energy efficiency and renewables: $1.9 trillion to $4.1 trillion

* In the South, two new reactors are slated for V.C. Summer in South Carolina, two for Plant Vogtle in Georgia, and two at the South Texas Project near San Antonio. One reactor is also planned at Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs, a joint undertaking of Constellation Energy and the French government-owned Electricité de France.

(This story originally appeared at Facing South. Click on figures to go to the original source.)